Words & Letters
Five months are almost complete, which means one more to the halfway mark of 2026. This also means that I still haven’t completed my new workflow. Progress is being made, but it’s slow. The tech overlords make a lot of promises, but the AI tools are still quite slow. Oh well, we’ve still got a […]
It’s been a whirlwind. My process is still not tidy–but I’m seeing glimpses of what could be. There’s no easy. Links are still fun, though. Work Mockups Were Never the Hard Part With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always […]
When I take a week off, like anything, it’s a bit of a relief. I still consume content. I’m still saving links. The other thing that I’ve been spending time on is process. I need to make these posts easier to create. It’s not the post itself; it’s the multiple versions. WordPress is easy enough, […]
Maybe by now you’ve noticed I’m a bit obsessive about collecting these links. Week after week, thousands of them, no end in sight. It started with a purpose: creative fuel for a team I was managing. That morphed into what you see here. It’s not a straight line, and honestly, it’s hard to keep going […]
Another week, just like the other 52. The machine rumbles on. The links keep coming. There’s no end in sight. Is that a good thing? Industrial Design Noise-canceling headphones can’t block out this genius bike bell A carmaker found just the right frequency for a bike bell to make it past a headphone’s noise-canceling algorithm. […]
April is shaping up to be pretty hectic. I usually manage these phases well, but there’s a cost. Some things will fall to the wayside. There are only so many hours in the day. The links don’t collect themselves. Or do they? Industrial Design Playrise’s easy-build playground lets kids be kids even when fleeing war […]
Maybe you’ve heard the popular, data-centric phrase, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” I like data; it often informs what I do. The fact remains that we designers are so often beaten down by data in an attempt to create logic where feelings are scary. I’ve done my share of A/B tests. I’ve used […]
The time change is upon us, more light in the evenings–which I like. It’s been a grind, and I’ll take a little extra sun in whatever way I can get it. I’m still working on my game, with the help of Claude. I’m at the point now where it’s in app testing. If you have […]
I’ve travelled more this year already than all of last year. Mostly for work, with a few quick, fun, opportunistic trips in between. I love traveling. My family was always going somewhere, exclusively in a car, which is maybe why I still love a road trip, even when I rarely have the time for one. […]
For the first time in a long time, I wrote a short thing about my own work–Teaching Computers to Draw. It’s not that I’m not making things, but I often ignore the crucial step of documentation and telling the story. This is very common for designers. We’re always focused on the problem, making, and once […]